How's everyone coping with summer?

[beblondie]

central air conditioning

 

[ewurm]

I bought undies with vents.

 

[prophets]

Commando style!

 

[mike dunagan]

could put a few ice cubes in there to help... not sure the vents will do to much

 

[ercnan]

could put a few ice cubes in there to help... not sure the vents will do to much

Ice cubes and airflow................................................ cool !!

 

[Lonewolfblue]

I do nothing. My tanks hover at around 84-85 degrees. I keep the heaters in, just incase it starts getting cooler in the evenings. But for the most part, since the tanks are warmer, the heaters never turn on.

 

[ercnan]

Nah..sump is inside the cabinet of the tank with ventilation tho. The way I have my pump in the tank it'd be a pain to move it outside since the bulkhead I drilled is at the top of the DIY w/d so that's out of the question of having it outside. Maybe I'll rig up a few PC fans...I know I should have about 8 of them lying around somewhere.

Well I do plan to get a chiller, since I'm planning on getting a 240g Long Tenecor tank so I figure to get a bigger chiller to cool off my 125 and 240 because I'm going to redo the setup. In-wall for the tanks more than likely with a 55g DIY W/D...this way I'll mount the pumps on the outside.

But for now I'll try that...the 12V fans and see if that helps.

Thanks.

Been the in-wall route as well. In my situation, it made the tank even warmer, so I went back to free standing.

 

[prophets]

Only reason I'm doing it is to stream line the appearance. Currently the 125, 55, 20L are free standing whilst my 30BR and 40BR are in-wall (false wall) and is apparently 2 degrees lower than the others. Go figure.

 

[ercnan]

Only reason I'm doing it is to stream line the appearance. Currently the 125, 55, 20L are free standing whilst my 30BR and 40BR are in-wall (false wall) and is apparently 2 degrees lower than the others. Go figure.

Interesting. You would think an in wall that is more confined would have less air circulation to use evaporation as a cooling effect.

 

[Cohazard]

My tank reaches about 89F during mid day, but I figure that's not to bad so I don't do anything special, except wish we had central air, instead of a friggin in wall POS that cools the air 3 feet in front of it.